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Look, I'd love to condemn the guy utterly. I really would. But I've been attacked by animals in the past. While I'd like to say I would try not to hurt the animal, the simple truth is in the heat of the moment, I'd probably just be trying to get it the heck away by any means possible.
Back in my first batch of chickens, I had a rooster. While I was in the pen, my niece came in, and the rooster flew at her in a rage with violence on his mind. It died mid leap, because I caught it by the head and swung it to wring it's neck. I've been in a position to kill a dog that was posing a threat. I'm sure I could have handled both situations without them ending with the death of the animal in question, but not, and this is important, not without greatly increasing the chances of harm to myself or someone else. In the case of the rooster, trying to grab it in a way that prevented hurting it would probably have resulted in it being able to reach my niece (age 3 at the time). Wasn't going to happen. And this was an animal I'd raised from an egg.
So would I crack the head of an attacking goose? Yeah, having been attacked by a goose in the past, I have to say I just might. My goal when attacked, whether it be by human or animal, is to stop the attack before I get hurt. A goose in full rage is capable of fracturing my arm, something sadly learned from experience.
